Wharton Basin

Wharton Basin is the marine area of the north east quarter of the

Cocos Islands) and West Australian Basin.^[1]

It lies east of the Ninety East Ridge and west of Western Australia.

It is of interest in relation to Indian Ocean floor movement and adjacent fracture zones^[2] and the relationship between the Indian and Australian plates ^[3] and is one of a number of features of the Indian Ocean that has been studied extensively.^[4]

References

doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1974)85<683:eoteci>2.0.co;2
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doi:10.1029/jb083ib02p00773
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S2CID 26211752
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^ Schlich, R., (1982). The Indian Ocean: Aseismic ridges, spreading centers and oceanic basins. In A.E.M. Nairn and F.G. Stehli , (Eds.), The Ocean Basins and Margins, vol. 6, The Indian Ocean, Plenum, New-York.

External links

Satish C. Singh; Nugroho Hananto; et al. (4 January 2017). "The discovery of a conjugate system of faults in the Wharton Basin intraplate deformation zone". Science Advances. 3 (1): e1601689.
PMID 28070561
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[1] :10.1130/0016-7606(1974)85<683:eoteci>2.0.co;2
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[2] :10.1029/jb083ib02p00773
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[3] S2CID 26211752
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[4] Schlich, R., (1982). The Indian Ocean: Aseismic ridges, spreading centers and oceanic basins. In A.E.M. Nairn and F.G. Stehli , (Eds.), The Ocean Basins and Margins, vol. 6, The Indian Ocean, Plenum, New-York.

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